FRONTAL SHOT
Film Residency
Frontal Shot is a film residency happening in Melgaço between July 31 and August 08, 2015, alongside FILMES DO HOMEM - Melgaço International Documentary Film Festival. The purpose of project PLANO FRONTAL is to contribute for an audiovisual archive about the immaterial heritage of Melgaço, to provide Espaço Memória e Fronteira with audiovisual works reflecting the history of the region, to promote documentary film and the appearance of new technical and artistic teams.
Four teams consisting of four young directors, four sound technicians and four cameramen will direct, for one week, four documentaries about local themes, yet to be proposed.
Plano Frontal's main targets are senior students on their final year attending higher education courses in Audiovisuals and Cinema or that have recently completed their education. The participants will be selected through application analysis and oriented by Pedro Sena Nunes, a Director/tutor with a large professional and pedagogical experience. All work will be framed and supported by a production team and a technical team formed by Carlos Eduardo Viana, Rui Ramos and Mário Gomes.
It addresses all those people willing to live through a unique cinematic experience, whose objective is to produce a documentary and to participate in the festival's activities. The organization committee will guarantee free room and board, from July 31 until August 08, to the twelve selected candidates and will provide logistic support for the teams to travel to filming locations. Each selected candidate will have to guarantee his own traveling, to and from Melgaço.
Regulation - Frontal Shot_Film residency
Entry Form - Frontal Shot_Film residency
FRONTAL SHOT
Fotographic Residency
Plano Frontal_Fotographic Residencywill be happening in Melgaço between July 31 and August 08, 2015, alongside FILMES DO HOMEM - the Melgaço Documentary Film Festival. The purpose of this photography residency is to contribute for an archive about Melgaço, to provide Espaço Memória e Fronteira with works that reflect the region and to promote photography and the appearance of new photographers.
Three young photographers will direct, for a week, a project about local themes, yet to be proposed.
Plano Frontal_Photography Residency’s main targets are senior students on their final year attending higher education courses in Photography or that have recently completed their education. The participants will be selected through application analysis and oriented by Pedro Sena Nunes, a director/tutor with a large professional and pedagogical experience. All work will be framed and supported by a production team and a technical team formed by Carlos Eduardo Viana, Rui Ramos and Mário Gomes.
It addresses all those people willing to live through a unique experience, whose objective is to produce a photography project and to participate in the festival's activities.
The organization committee will guarantee free room and board, from July 31 until August 8, to the three selected candidates and will provide logistic support for the teams to travel to shooting locations.
Each selected candidate will have to guarantee his own traveling, to and from Melgaço.
Consult the Regulations of Plano Frontal_ Photography Residency, fill in the registration form and send it by email, until 15 of July 2015, to docs@filmesdohomem.pt.
Entry is free.
Regulation - Frontal Shot_Photography residency
Entry Form - Frontal Shot_Photography Residency
Working Team
Carlos Eduardo Viana
Carlos completed his higher education in Cinema and Video at Escola Superior do Porto and has a degree in teaching. Teacher at grupo 200. Coordinator at Oficina do Cinema e Audivisuais of Centro Cultural do alto Minho (1981 to 1994) and founding partner/Chairman of AO NORTE - Associação de Produção e Animação Audiovisual, NGDO, in 1994. Awarded a grant from the French government, he attended two work placements in direct cinema (initiation and specialization) at Ateliers VARAN in Paris. Coordinator of educational activities developed by AO NORTE in the field of cinema and audiovisuals, Encontros de Cinema de Viana and the website Lugar do Real. Director of several documentaries in Portugal, Angola and Cape Verde.
Pedro Sena Nunes
Pedro studied Cinema and attended courses in writing, photography, video and theater at several european schools. Cofounder of Companhia Teatro Meridional. He is a film director - documentaries, fiction, advertising and experimental. Consultant and coordinator on a number of cultural projects. Codirector of InArte, InShadow and Fance&Design Festivals. Collaborator with european projects Fragile, Unlimited, European Video Dance Heritage and Encontros de Viana. Lecturer in film directing and transdisciplinary narratives at ETIC, ESMAE, IPA, SOU and EscreverEscrever. Dedicated to the field of teaching since 1994. Jury member at various festivals. Has several awards in photography, video and cinema.
Rui Ramos
Rui was born in Paris in 1971. He has higher education studies in law, marketing and tourism promotion. Founding member and Executive Director at AO NORTE - Associação de Produção e Animação Audiovisual, where he assumes executive production of documentaries and the responsibility for the production of documentaries produced within Olhar o Real documentary course. Executive producer of Encontros de Viana - Cinema and Video (2001-2015). Artistic director and Head of Programming at Festafife Festival Internacional de Teatro de Marionetas (Puppetry) e Cinema de Animação (2007-2011) in the field of film animation. Founder and coordinator of Minho Film Commission. Works as a consultant in the field of Tourism and is an impresario.
Mário Gomes
Mário Gomes (1982) completed his studies in Science Communication in 2004, having before worked with various cultural and student associations. Since then, he has developed projects in theater, dance, music and cinema. In 2007 he moves to Madrid, where he works in the solidarity project SCREAM (Supporting Childrens Rights through Education, Arts and Media) , developed by the International Labour Organization. In cinema, Mário Gomes has worked with several filmmakers, such as Rodrigo Areias , Manoel de Oliveira, Victor Erice, Peter Greenaway , Edgar Pera , Joonas Berghall , John Canijo, Gabe Klinger, among others.
Miguel Arieira
Miguel was born in 1987 and graduated (2010) in Audiovisual Communication Technology (field of video) from Escola Superior de Música e Artes do Espectáculo at Instituto Politécnico do Porto. With previous musical training (Academia de Música of Viana do Castelo) and therefore a special proximity to the field of sound, he develops, during his degree course, a specific interest in documentation, collection and sound mixing, specializing in capture and post-production audio. In addition to recording and sound design, focusing on technical research on spatial notions in stereo and 5.1, his work, however, also complements other aspects - directing, camera operation and photography – and he has already participated in several projects for film and television (fiction, documentary and advertising). Presently working with AO NORTE - Associação de Produção e Animação Audiovisual, where he is responsible for capture and post-production audio and is also directly involved in the documentary recording work undertaken by the association.